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OJFord commented on Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers   padailypost.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/christhecaribou
martin-t · 8 hours ago
How about instead abolishing privately owned companies?

Most western countries are democracies because people got fed up of being exploited by dictators (sometimes called "kings"), removed them and setup a system in which they elect who makes the decisions. This system has issues but is less bad than dictatorship.

Yet, companies kept their hierarchical power structures.

Workers should decide who makes the decisions. If they don't wanna invest time into selling their product, they hire a salesman. If they want somebody to make long term projections, plan what gets worked on and communicates with other teams, they hire an assistant. And they decide how much he gets paid according to how much value he actually brings them.

Managers should be assistants.

OJFord · 7 hours ago
Companies didn't 'keep' hierarchical power structures, companies emerged exactly from that separation of industry and state.
OJFord commented on I Don't Have Spotify   idonthavespotify.sjdonado... · Posted by u/ohjeez
mattigames · 8 hours ago
Songs, if you paste playlist it just searches for a playlist with similar words in their title.
OJFord · 7 hours ago
That seems correct really? I suppose the other thing it could do would be to fetch each song at that point in time and link them individually. But then if you want that, you can always do that from the original ones anyway.
OJFord commented on Scottish brothers finish mammoth row across Pacific Ocean after 139 days   abc.net.au/news/2025-08-3... · Posted by u/e2e4
OJFord · 14 hours ago
Their voices must be very hoarse.
OJFord commented on I sat down with Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon   everton.xyz/i-sat-down-wi... · Posted by u/evertonmjr
danielbln · 2 days ago
Agreed. No capitalization is fine for Slack, but annoying in a blog. Here is a fixed version: https://gist.github.com/dmahlow/55028bd34c148514067abd80291a...
OJFord · 2 days ago
It's annoying in Slack too.
OJFord commented on OpenRouter is down   status.openrouter.ai... · Posted by u/gitmagic
gkbrk · 4 days ago
Nope, for closed models too. Claude for example has multiple providers they work with. Google Vertex, Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic themselves all provide inference for Claude.

The vast majority of models on OpenRouter (both closed and open) have multiple providers.

OJFord · 4 days ago
Also you might be fine with routing to a different model.
OJFord commented on Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published   github.com/nrwl/nx/securi... · Posted by u/longcat
saberience · 4 days ago
I would say this is a feature, not a bug.

Terminal and Bash or any shell can do this, if the user sucks. I want Claude Code to be able to do anything and everything, that's why it's so powerful. Sure, I can also make it do bad stuff, but that's like any tool. We don't ban knives because sometimes they kill people, because they're useful.

OJFord · 4 days ago
I would say it's neither, it's complacent misuse by the user. As you allude to we generally already are, but non-deterministic & especially 'agentic' AI makes the stakes/likelihood of it going wrong so much higher.

Don't use an MCP server with permission (capability) to do more than you want, regardless of whether you think you're instructing the AI tool do the bad thing it's technically capable of.

Don't run AI tools with filesystem access outside of something like a container with only a specific whitelist of directory mounts.

Assume that the worst that could happen with the capability given will happen.

OJFord commented on Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published   github.com/nrwl/nx/securi... · Posted by u/longcat
saberience · 4 days ago
So what?

It doesn't run by itself, you have to choose to run it. We have tons of apps with loads of permissions. The terminal can also mess with your filesystem and run commands... sure, but it doesn't open by itself and run commands itself. You have to literally run claude code and tell it to do stuff. It's not some living, breathing demon that's going to destroy your computer while you're at work.

Claude Code is the most amazing and game changing tool I've used since I first used a computer 30 years ago. I couldn't give two fucks about its "vectors of attack", none of them matter if no one has unauthorized access to my computer, and if they do, Claude Code is the least of my issues.

OJFord · 4 days ago
It doesn't have to be a deliberate 'attack', Claude can just do something absurdly inappropriate that wasn't what you intended.

You're absolutely right! I should not have `rm -rf /bin`d!

OJFord commented on macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support   becca.ooo/blog/macos-dotf... · Posted by u/zdw
joshka · 5 days ago
The xdg vars only control the location. There’s no var to control that xdg should be used. macOS has a canonical approach, which some tools choose to ignore. I want a flag to make that ignorance correct
OJFord · 5 days ago
I know, but if XDG vars controlling the location exist then obviously 'use XDG' is desired.
OJFord commented on Show HN: Smart email filters to unfuck your email   unfuck.email... · Posted by u/kilroy123
balls187 · 5 days ago
I used a paid for service to help clean out my gmail accounts.

I’m considering this, but curious if the name is a turn off for others like it does for me?

As a baby GenX(er), is that a generational thing?

OJFord · 5 days ago
(Millennial) it doesn't particularly faze me, for a while I used/tried out the cli tool 'thefuck' at work for example, but certainly I agree in the sense that I wouldn't choose such a name for my own thing, and it does surprise me a bit that people do. It's attention-grabbing though, I suppose.

u/OJFord

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